People who worked at the following trades were likely to have had direct exposure to asbestos dust:
- Boilermakers
- Bricklayers
- Building Engineer
- Carpenters
- Cement Finishers
- Custodians
- Electricians
- Foundry Workers
- HVAC Mechanics
- Insulators
- Ironworkers
- Laborers
- Machinists
- Maintenance
- Merchant Mariners
- Millwrights
- Navy Personnel
- Paperworkers
- Pipefitters
- Plasterers
- Plumbers
- Powerhouse Workers
- Railroad Workers
- Refinery Workers
- Rubber Workers
- Sheetmetal Workers
- Shipyard Workers
- Steamfitters
- Steelworkers
- Talc Mine Workers
- Welders
Here’s a list of North Carolina Asbestos Exposure Sites where workers may have come in contact with asbestos.
Note: In addition, family members of people who worked around asbestos fibers on the job may have had so-called secondhand asbestos exposure from household activities such as washing the worker’s clothing or, even more unexpectedly, from simply giving a welcome-home hug daily upon the worker getting back to the house each day.
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